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ISPs Agree to Mete Out Punishment for Illegal File-Sharing July 08, 2011 
Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have promised to be more proactive in alerting possible copyright violators using their networks in a voluntary agreement with the music and film industries. The antipiracy model they've adopted has been pushed for some time by the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America.
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Heavily Traveled Roads to Netflix Could Face Traffic Jams May 19, 2011 
If the Internet is the equivalent of our solar system, then Netflix would be Jupiter, its largest planet. That, at least, is the imagery that Sandvine evokes in its latest report, "Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight." Netflix has ascended to the No. 1 Internet traffic spot, the firm found, accounting for 29.70 percent of all peak-period downstream traffic.
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Net Neutrality in a Nutshell May 11, 2011 
No doubt you've heard the term "Net neutrality." Proponents and opponents have much to say on this topic. However, many Internet users don't even know what it means, or how it will affect them. "Net neutrality" is short for "network neutrality" or "Internet neutrality." The concept addresses user access to the Internet, and the debate centers on whether ISPs can limit, tier, block or otherwise affect Internet performance.
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House Subcommittee Vote Unlikely to Impede Net Neutrality Rules March 10, 2011 
The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday.
The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House for consideration.
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Verizon Goes for FCC's Jugular in Net Neutrality War January 21, 2011 
Verizon Communications Thursday picked a legal fight with the Federal Communications Commission over its recently announced Net neutrality rules. "We are deeply concerned by the FCC's assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation," said Michael Glover, Verizon senior vice president and deputy general counsel. "We believe this assertion of authority goes well beyond any authority provided by Congress..."
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FCC's Net Neutrality: Have It Google-Verizon's Way December 22, 2010 
Let the exceptions and exemptions begin, Net neutrality critics cry, as the Federal Communications Commission's newly approved rules take effect for all but a chosen few -- mobile broadband providers, that is, with a Google-Verizon pact taking the lead. Striking similarities between the FCC ruling and an August 2010 Google-Verizon proposal to the FCC trouble critics.
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It's a Dark Day for Net Neutrality Opponents December 21, 2010 
By a 3-2 vote Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a sweeping new Internet regulatory framework commonly referred to as "Net neutrality rules." Long-winded monologues filled with references to innovation, transparency, freedom -- and staff kudos -- kept commission members talking for well over an hour, as they took to their respective bully pulpits.
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FCC's Net Neutrality Vote Could Leave Door Wide Open for New Wireless Fees December 20, 2010 
Net neutrality may be anything but after the Federal Communications Commission votes Tuesday on the proposal, rumored to contain a controversial "usage-based pricing provision" that could boost service provider bottom lines. A leaked PowerPoint presentation reveals two large wireless suppliers -- Allot Communications and Openet -- showing wireless providers how to charge extra for popular Web services.
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Genachowski Locks Horns With Republicans in Net Neutrality Scuffle December 01, 2010 
An internal struggle has broken out at the FCC over Chairman Julius Genachowski's surprise announcement minutes before midnight Wednesday that he intends to pursue a full Commission vote on Net neutrality rules four days before Christmas. "I strongly oppose this ill-advised maneuver," said FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell in a prepared statement released just minutes after Genachowski explained his reasoning.
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Level 3 Cries Foul Over Comcast Streaming Fee November 30, 2010 
Level 3 Communications on Monday complained when Comcast demanded the content delivery network pay a recurring fee for transmitting online moves and games to Comcast customers. Level 3 said the move violates the principles of Net neutrality. Comcast notified Level 3 on November 19 that it would begin charging for streaming and asked for a recurring fee to transmit online movies and other content.
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Berners-Lee Sounds Alarm Over Appified, Siloed, Regulated Web November 22, 2010 
Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee worries that the Web's most successful inhabitants are gradually chipping away at its "egalitarian" foundations. "The Web as we know it is being threatened," writes Berners-Lee in a Scientific American essay. Unchecked, these creeping conundrums threaten to break the Web into islands as fragmented as the cellphones, tablets and personal computers that now access it.
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'What Is the Real Value of Copyright?' Q&A With BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker November 12, 2010 
Once the pariah of the media world, peer-to-peer software has come a long way since the days of Napster and college kids with hard drives stuffed with pirated music. Now, current P2P software provider BitTorrent boasts 80 million users, which, as CEO Eric Klinker is quick to point out, is somewhere between four and five times the size of cable giant Comcast's customer base.
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Political Nerves Derail Net Neutrality Bill September 30, 2010
Congress is unlikely to pass legislation regulating the activities of broadband Internet service providers this year. And it's not clear when -- or if -- such rules will be enacted. Democratic California Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has pulled a bill that was supposed to enforce the concept of Net neutrality from consideration.
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Google Begins Buttressing Its Net Neutrality Argument August 13, 2010 
After a few days of absorbing the criticism of its joint proposal with Verizon, Google -- a company that was once counted as a stalwart in the push for Net neutrality -- is defending itself. In a nutshell, the plan calls for excluding the mobile Internet from most of the consumer protections that would apply to the wired Internet.
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Did Google Just Cross Over? August 12, 2010 
Sellout. Unprincipled. Evil. These aren't the sort of adjectives Google executives are used to hearing applied to their little startup, now a $150 billion company that has grown from a simple search engine into a dominating corporate powerhouse that even has its own foreign policy challenges. However, the company has been in for a bruising in some quarters this week.
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Net Neutrality: Who's the Boss? August 11, 2010 
The Internet traffic management plan from Google and Verizon may be just a new proposal at this point, but in the short time since its introduction, it's proven to be nothing if not controversial. An obvious first question in projecting the way forward is, who's in charge at this point?
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